| Description | 1st mould; 2nd strike (1st strike to French Academy, Rome). Seamline identical to cast in the Ecole National superior de Beaux-Arts, Paris. Vincent Butler carried out various repairs and retouched the paint at various dates (VB to MS, 16.3.08).
Cast from an original :East Doors of Florence Baptistery, ('Porta Del Paradiso'), 1424-52, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo, Vittorio Ghiberti et al., Gilt bronze, 5.18m high, 2 doors, 10 panels.
2 lowest panels (David, and Soloman and the Queen of Sheba) missing; photgraphed in the Sculpture Gallery of the Royal Institution in late 19th-century.also the decorated jambs of the architrave do not appear to have been included in the original casting.
Published: The Scotsman, 3 Feb 1913. Smailes, Helen, Journal of the History of Collections (1991), 3 (2): 125-143, doi: 10.1093/jhc/3.2.125. |
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